At the heart of the Altai Mountains in Russia, a mysterious ancient culture has created megaliths in shape of mythical creatures – a dragon and a griffin. Russian archaeologist Ruslan Posyolkov discovered the impressive structures in 2013 while surveying mountains, the Siberian Times reports. He believes the megaliths date back at least 12,000 years, and could thus have been created by prehistoric people at the end of the last Ice Age. Analyses of the samples will nevertheless have to be conducted in order to verify this hypothesis. The dragon megalith is estimated to weigh a staggering 120 tons. “It has bold and smooth features similar to those of crocodiles and dinosaurs, impossible to form if granite cracks naturally”, Peresyolkov noted. “If we accept the fact that the dragon is an artificial object, then the stones composing it were brought, processed and installed in a certain position”. This could be the oldest known representation of the fantastical beast in Siberia. (READ MORE)